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I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom
In his new book, I Used to be Gifted—Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom: Stories and Lessons from a Lifetime, long time educator, Mark Hess, helps teachers and parents understand and nurture gifted learners and even—perhaps, in the process—themselves- by offering anecdotes, research from experts in the field, practical guides, lesson plans and units, and observations from 34 years in K-12 education.

The opening chapters will help the reader understand gifted children with stories that are sometimes lighthearted, sometimes tugging on heartstrings, but always relatable and true. Through stories, readers are invited inside the experiences of giftedness—organically and congenially as if they were visiting on the author’s back porch. Sit down, chat about these kids we love. Have a cookie? A glass of wine? But this book is so much more than a series of stories and an amused chuckle here and there. The stories are tied to research and observations from experts in gifted education and through a lifetime of the author’s own readings in the field. In understanding our gifted learners, we hope to understand how to nurture them as well.

I Used to Be Gifted provides the practical advice so desperately needed by teachers and parents on a daily basis. It contains four units for gifted learners appropriate for both home and school: two social-emotional units focused specifically in meeting the needs of gifted boys and girls, an engaging hands-on unit which spans the curriculum for our highly visual Generation Z students, and a series of differentiated menus which can be used by either gifted resource teachers or teachers in the regular classroom. All are kid-tested, developed, and refined over the years in the author’s classrooms—elementary and middle school. In addition, links are provided to a wealth of free resources provided by the author. The section containing these units contains ready-to-print activities that can be used right away.

Additionally, Mr. Hess takes the lead in exploring the lives of our younger generation of school children by dedicating an entire chapter to Generation Z and giftedness!
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I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom
In his new book, I Used to be Gifted—Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom: Stories and Lessons from a Lifetime, long time educator, Mark Hess, helps teachers and parents understand and nurture gifted learners and even—perhaps, in the process—themselves- by offering anecdotes, research from experts in the field, practical guides, lesson plans and units, and observations from 34 years in K-12 education.

The opening chapters will help the reader understand gifted children with stories that are sometimes lighthearted, sometimes tugging on heartstrings, but always relatable and true. Through stories, readers are invited inside the experiences of giftedness—organically and congenially as if they were visiting on the author’s back porch. Sit down, chat about these kids we love. Have a cookie? A glass of wine? But this book is so much more than a series of stories and an amused chuckle here and there. The stories are tied to research and observations from experts in gifted education and through a lifetime of the author’s own readings in the field. In understanding our gifted learners, we hope to understand how to nurture them as well.

I Used to Be Gifted provides the practical advice so desperately needed by teachers and parents on a daily basis. It contains four units for gifted learners appropriate for both home and school: two social-emotional units focused specifically in meeting the needs of gifted boys and girls, an engaging hands-on unit which spans the curriculum for our highly visual Generation Z students, and a series of differentiated menus which can be used by either gifted resource teachers or teachers in the regular classroom. All are kid-tested, developed, and refined over the years in the author’s classrooms—elementary and middle school. In addition, links are provided to a wealth of free resources provided by the author. The section containing these units contains ready-to-print activities that can be used right away.

Additionally, Mr. Hess takes the lead in exploring the lives of our younger generation of school children by dedicating an entire chapter to Generation Z and giftedness!
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I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom

I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom

by Mark Hess
I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom
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I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom

I Used to be Gifted: Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom

by Mark Hess

Overview

In his new book, I Used to be Gifted—Understanding, Nurturing, and Teaching Gifted Learners at Home and in the Classroom: Stories and Lessons from a Lifetime, long time educator, Mark Hess, helps teachers and parents understand and nurture gifted learners and even—perhaps, in the process—themselves- by offering anecdotes, research from experts in the field, practical guides, lesson plans and units, and observations from 34 years in K-12 education.

The opening chapters will help the reader understand gifted children with stories that are sometimes lighthearted, sometimes tugging on heartstrings, but always relatable and true. Through stories, readers are invited inside the experiences of giftedness—organically and congenially as if they were visiting on the author’s back porch. Sit down, chat about these kids we love. Have a cookie? A glass of wine? But this book is so much more than a series of stories and an amused chuckle here and there. The stories are tied to research and observations from experts in gifted education and through a lifetime of the author’s own readings in the field. In understanding our gifted learners, we hope to understand how to nurture them as well.

I Used to Be Gifted provides the practical advice so desperately needed by teachers and parents on a daily basis. It contains four units for gifted learners appropriate for both home and school: two social-emotional units focused specifically in meeting the needs of gifted boys and girls, an engaging hands-on unit which spans the curriculum for our highly visual Generation Z students, and a series of differentiated menus which can be used by either gifted resource teachers or teachers in the regular classroom. All are kid-tested, developed, and refined over the years in the author’s classrooms—elementary and middle school. In addition, links are provided to a wealth of free resources provided by the author. The section containing these units contains ready-to-print activities that can be used right away.

Additionally, Mr. Hess takes the lead in exploring the lives of our younger generation of school children by dedicating an entire chapter to Generation Z and giftedness!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781953360168
Publisher: Gifted Unlimited
Publication date: 01/10/2023
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 760,002
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Mark Hess is a board member and the editor of the SENG Library, President-Elect of the Colorado Association for Gifted Students, and is the Gifted Programs Specialist in a large, urban school district in Colorado Springs. He has published 5 books for gifted specialists including 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Gifted Social-Emotional Curriculums. As Portable Gifted and Talented, Mark has shared over 24,000 free resources. You can visit his website at www.giftedlearners.org

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At Home in the Middle
Our culture has decided that it’s OK to be gifted in certain ways, but somehow it is elitist to be intellectually gifted. If you can read an opposition’s defense in football, check off at the scrimmage line to an alternative play, and then pass a football 50 yards between the cornerback and nickelback to a receiver running in full stride, you will be celebrated (and by the way, that quarterback is most likely nonverbally gifted and sees visual relationships like less than 5% of the population). If you can, however, pinpoint a metaphor in text at age 8 and infer the metaphor’s relationship to the characterization of the protagonist, then this is somehow elitist. While your neighbors may be investing in basketball camps and hockey gear and following their kids to tournaments, it may be wise for you not to mention your child is in the gifted and talented program. As Delisle and Galbraith summarize, “Ours is an allegedly egalitarian nation. We’re supposed to give all children the same opportunities to learn, grow, and realize their potential. We’re not supposed to give some children special, better, extra opportunities. That’s not fair (p. 23).
“Do you think you’re special? Isn’t everyone, after all, gifted?” In order to keep enrichment programming alive and funded, some districts have begun to declare everyone in need of more challenging opportunities. Some districts, on the other hand, are eliminating gifted programming altogether. I’m not so sure that the end result of these two scenarios will be much different.
No, not everyone is gifted. All children are unique. All children’s lives are precious. All children deserve love and support. But not all children are gifted. The brain of a gifted individual is biologically different; gifted learners are neurologically diverse. Neuroscience tells us that gifted learners have a larger brain volume, greater connectivity across brain regions, increased brain activation, greater sensory sensitivity, and increased brain areas associated with emotional processing (Sharon Duncan, et al.) Within this diversity, the gifted brain is itself quite diverse. This neurologically diverse individual will face many challenges and will likely encounter misunderstandings from friends and teachers and colleagues throughout their lifetimes. Being gifted is not elitist.

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